Teaching Content:
The course covers the fundamental concepts of information theory.
Specific topics include (lecture in German):
Einfuehrung und Grundlagen, Stochastische Prozesse, Entropie, Informationsquellen, Codierung diskreter Quellen, Diskrete, gestoerte Kanaele,
Shannon'sches Kanalcodierungstheorem, Kanalcodierung, Lineare und zyklische Codes, Faltungscodes, Fallstudie Datenkompression.
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of statistics.
Examination
No notes, books or scripts allowed.
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Dec 13: Due to the midterm exam in theoretical computer science all exercise groups will be in the afternoon. Please note the room and time changes (check the exercises page for detials)!
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